Belief in the past; theoretical approaches to the archaeology of religion.

9781598743418

Belief in the past; theoretical approaches to the archaeology of religion.

Ed. by David S. Whitley and Kelley Hays-Gilpin.

Left Coast Press

2008

289 pages

$65.00

Hardcover

BL65

Anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians discuss the scant and tenuous attention that their disciplines pay to religion, sometimes pondering the difficulties and potentials, and sometimes demonstrating what can and cannot be doneor at least what has and has not been done. Their topics include cross-cultural and biogenetic perspectives on the origins of shamanism, first steps in an archaeology of religion, unpacking the Southern Cult and Mississippian religion, and archaeology and women's ritual business.

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